The American version makes business success the next best thing to fraternalism and solidarity.
They can't pay players, so they choose the next best thing: shiny facilities to lure them.
We'd love to be winning the Heineken Cup, but this certainly is the next best thing.
The next best thing, we guess, is hoping for another Giants-Pats thriller in Indy.
It is their job to do so, and possibly the next best thing to psychological safety.
For those who cannot get such regular jobs, a petty business is the next best thing.
While that has yet to happen, Malaysia Airlines might have come up with the next best thing.
But a small Chicago firm, Lanworth, is doing the next best thing, which is to re-create it from the outside.
But Yellowknife seems to be the next best thing: the first truly habitable site outside of our planet.
When the banks no longer pay, some investors are finding the local electric company the next best thing.
So investor Peter Thiel is contemplating the next best thing: Helping to actually build one in the real world.
So I went with the next best thing: a kid I met in the parking lot of Yosemite's Camp 4.
Mr Yilmaz, then still caretaker prime minister, said this might be the next best thing to sending him to Turkey.
The next best thing might be binding rules that force southern governments to take seriously those things dear to German voters.
For those not fortunate enough to have Hollywood running through your family tree, this book may be the next best thing.
If you can't make it to France to see the stunning Versailles grounds in person, this site is the next best thing.
Both Zetia and Vytorin prospered because doctors believed that in combating heart disease, lowering LDL was the next best thing to youth.
However, DirecPC tries to deliver the next best thing to a persistent connection by offering a service called an Electronic Program Guide.
Hence most investors flocked to the next best thing: fixed-income instruments such as investment grade bonds, U.S. Treasuries and even high-yielding junk bonds.
It's "the next best thing to a free lunch, " write Malkiel and partner Mei, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.
He did the next best thing, engineering an open nominating convention in which more than 12, 000 delegates were free to vote for any candidate.
An Essex town's bid to book Beyonce for its carnival may have failed, but its neighbours are planning to offer visitors the next best thing.
Super-Kamiokande cannot actually count tau neutrinos in fact nobody has ever been able to detect a tau neutrino directly but the team did the next best thing.
At that time birth records for chimpanzees were not kept so Wolf did the next best thing: He asked the expert to estimate Little Mama's age.
The next best thing to being there for Emily Springfield, desk-bound in Michigan but with her grandparents in Florida, are sites like the National Hurricane Center.
But you can do the next best thing and invest in Sina, a Chinese Internet company which is the parent of Weibo, a Twiter-like microblogging service.
So I went to the next best thing -- two women who attended a HighScope preschool in Michigan but weren't part of the studies the group ran.
He has long argued for a return to the gold standard, as the next best thing to (and presumably a stepping-stone towards) a single currency for the world.
"It doesn't quite feel like being at the concert but it does feel like the next best thing, " said Screen Daily editor Wendy Mitchell of the 3D format.
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